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of the Alexandrine Plover will ftand thus: fize about that of a Lark: 
bill black: head and back greyifh or pale brown: forehead -at the 
bafe of the bill white, which paffes over the eye in a line of the fame, 
and blends itfelf with a collar of white, pafling round the neck; the 
under parts of the body are every where white allo, and the brown 
colour comes forward on each fide of the breaft, but does not meet 
thereon: the quills are dufky grey, within whitifh, and leffen in 
length inwards, but the three inmoft are nearly as long as the outer 
ones, and of the fame colour with the back; from the fifth to the 
eighth quill, an oblong white fpot onthe outer margin; the fecon- 
daries tipped with white: four of the middle tail feathers are dufky 
black, the others fhorter; the two outer ones on each fide are white; 
the two next dufky white, with brown tips: jegs bluetfh brown: toes 
and claws black, 
I was favoured with a drawing of what I conjecture may be a va- 
riety, by my late friend Mr. Pennant: in this, the head was pale brown, 
but the forehead not white, nor was there any ftreak of white over the 
eye; all the under parts from the chin white, paffing round the neck 
in a collar: the back, wings, and tail, as in the former: bill and legs _ 
black *, 
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Kentifh Plover, Lewin. Br. Birds, pl. 185. 
IZE of the Ringed Plover: length fix inches and a half; breadth 
fifteen inches ; weight an ounce and a half: the bill is black: top 
of the head ferruginous brown, bounded on the fore part with black ; 
but the forehead is white, and paffes over the eye, and a little beyond 
it: from the bill, through the eye, a black ftreak, broadening behind 
4 We fhould think that whatever further variety may be of this bird, it is not likely, 
to be with a black ftreak through the eye, or a black breaft; fuch more probably be- 
long to the Egypizan Plover.—=Gen. Sy. Vs Pe 205.9. A, 
the 
